sche|ma

sche|ma
sche|ma «SKEE muh», noun, plural -ma|ta «-muh tuh».
1. a diagram, plan, or scheme: »

What Dr. Donaldson found was a perfectly good schema which…put the arbitrary zero at body temperature, with “warm” as its label (New Yorker).

2. a draft of decrees to be issued by an ecumenical council: »

This schema consisted of…such topics as the principles of liturgical renewal, the eucharistic mystery, the sacraments and sacramentals (New Yorker).

3. (in Kantian philosophy) any one of certain forms or rules of the “productive imagination” through which the understanding is able to apply its “categories” to the manifold of sense perception in the process of realizing knowledge or experience.
╂[< Latin schēma < Greek schêma, -atos figure, appearance. See etym. of doublet scheme. (Cf. ↑scheme)]

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